Movable bank-lattice.



PATENTED SEPT. 25, 1906. w. LAWRENCE.

MOVABLE BANK LATTICE. PPPP ICATION FILED NOV. 9, 1905.

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PATENTED SEPT. 25, 1906f W. LAWRENCE. MOVABLE BANK LATTI APPLICATION FILED NOV. 9,

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WILLIAM LAWRENCE, OF XENIA, OHIO.

MOVABLE BANK-LATTICE.

No. 831,617. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 25, 1906. Application filed November 9,1905. Serial No. 286,624.

To all whom it may concern.- at A) andhaving its upper portionperforated,

Be it known that I, WILLIAM LAWRENCE, a as shown at To the solid portion are secitizen of the United States, residing at Xenia, cured suitable vertical brackets A upon both in the county of Greene and State of Ohio, the inner and outer faces of the fixed wall or have invented a new and useful Improve-- partition A, and upon these brackets are supment in Movable Bank-Lattices, of which the ported front and inner counters A. following is a specification. The partition A has adjacent its vertical This invention relates to an improvement edges suitable cylindrical bosses A formed inlattices or railings designed for use in conthereon, and in the ends of these bosses are nection with windows in bank-fixtures, such formed threaded sockets adapted to receive as are used by paying and receiving tellers, bolts or screws by means ofwhich suitable and is designed as an improvement upon my upright end pieces B are secured to the ends Patent No. 727 ,812, granted May 12, 1903, of the wall A and at right angles thereto. for a burglartrap. The invention described Upon the inner counter A and adjacent 7o herein can be employed either in combinaeach end of the same are arranged vertical tion with the features shown in said patent or upright plates B, one of which has an anby itself, as may be deemed advisable. gled extension B Mounted upon the inner The object of the invention is to provide a counter A and slidable thereon is a movable safeguard against the holding up of a teller partition or lattice-work O, provided with or other bank officer by any person upon the perforations O, which are adapted when the outer side of the railing and lattice-work lattice-work .O is in its normal position to which usually extends aroundbank-counters. aline with the perforations A in the lattice The invention consists of a fixed lattice portion of the wall A. The lattice O is of and a movable lattice, the openings of which less length than the wall A and rests against aline with those of the fixed lattice when the the inner face of said wall, and the end porparts are in their normal position, but which tions of the lattice C are held between the inare drawn out of alinement when the movner faces of the wall A and the upright strips able lattice is moved longitudinally upon the or plates B. A flanged guide-plate D is car- 'fixed lattice, thereby presenting an imperforied by the upper edge of the wall A, and the rate partition; and it also consists of providupper edge of the lattice-work O rests in the ing the movable lattice with a solid portion groove formed between the wall-plate A and having window-openings therein which aline the inner flange of the guide-plate D. Thelatwith the window-openings of the fixed lattice tice-work C is held at both its ends and upper only when the movable lattice is in its noredges by the plates B and D and is free to 0 mal position.

have a limited longitudinal movement upon The invention also consists in the means the inner counter A". Two end corners of for moving the movable lattice at will.

the lattice-work are cut out as shown at C, The invention further consists in the novel and in these cut-out portions are arranged features of construction hereinafter fully set coil-springs E, one end of each being secured 5 forth, pointed out in the claims, and shown to the lattice-work C, while the opposite ends in the accompanying drawings; in which are secured to the fixed wall A. The tend- Figure 1 is a vertical elevation showing the enoy of these springs is to draw the latticeparts in their normal position as seen from work O into the position shown in Fig. 3, in the inner side of the bank-counter, certain which position the openings C will be out of portions being broken away to show the realinement with the openings A, and the wall leasing mechanism. Fig. 2 is a section on A and lattice-workOwill, combined, present the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail view a substantially solid wall between the inner of the lower portion of the device, the bankand outer counters A. counter being in section and the parts being To hold the lattice C in normal position, so roq shown in abnormal position. Fig. 4 is an that the openings C and A will register, the end view of the device. Fig. 5 is a section on following means are provided: The inner the line 5 5 of Fig. Fig. 6 is a detail percounter A is cut out as shown at A, and the spective view of an end of the counter, illuslattice-work O is provided with a depending trating the actuating means employed. lug C projecting into the cut-out portion A. 1 10 In the drawings, A represents a fixed ver- A disk F is rotatably mounted below the cuttical wall having a lower solid portion (shown out portion A of the inner counter A and is provided with a tooth F, which projects upwardly into said opening and in position to be engaged by the lug 0 A coil-spring G is secured at one end to the inner faces of the wall A and at the opposite end to the disk F and tends to hold the said disk against rotation and when rotated to return it to its normal position. The disk F is also provided with a tooth F which is normally engaged by a hook H, formed at one end upon a lever H, which lever is composed of two curved arms and, is pivoted to the inner face of the wall A at the juncture of the two arms. The other arm of the lever H has one end of a coil-spring J connected thereto, the opposite end of the spring J being connected to the wall A. A foot-treadle K is pivotally connected to the wall A, and'a cable K has one end connected to the free end of the foot-treadle K and has its opposite end connected to the end portion of the curved arm to which the spring J is connected, the cable K running over a suitable loose pulley K In the wall A immediately above the counters A suitable grated windows A are formed, and in the latticework C are formed suitable running windows 0 which register with the windows A when the lattice-work C is in its normal position. A suitable knob L is carried by the lattice O, by which it can be returned to'its normal position after it has been drawn into a closed position by the springs E.

The operation of the device will be obvious, as it will be readily seen that when the lattice C is in its normal position the appearance of an open lattice-work will be presented from either side of the counters A provided with one or more windows; but if for any reason it is desired to replace the open latticework by a practically solid metal wall the bank clerk has only to depress with his foot the treadle K and the lever H will be tripped, causing the hook H to release the tooth F and the springs E being much stronger than the spring G will at once draw the latticework 0 into the position shown in Fig. 3, thus throwing the openings and windows out of alinement. The spring G will return the disk F to its normal position as soon as the movement of the lattice has rotated it a sulficient distance to release the lug C from engagement with the tooth F. When it is desired to again open the lattice-work, the lattice C may be moved by means of the knob L to its normal again catch and engage the tooth F, and the lattice will be held open until the lever H is again tripped by the treadle K.

' Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l.' The combination with a wall carrying a counter and having openings formed therein, of a lattice-work arranged upon the counter and slidable thereon, said lattice-work being parallel to and adjacent the wall and the openings of the lattice alining with those of the wall when the lattice is in normal position, means for sliding the lattice out of normal' position, a lug carried by the lattice, a rotatable disk having a tooth adapted to be engaged by said lug, a spring connected at one end to the disk and adapted to restore the same in its normal position when partially rotated, a second tooth on the disk a pivoted hooked lever adapted to engage saidsecond tooth, and means for lever.

2. A bank-fixture comprising a stationary wall having a solid lower portion and an upper lattice-work portion, the counter carried by said wall, a spring-actuated movable lattice arranged upon the counter and adapted to slide upon the fixed lattice, the openings in the fixed and movable lattices registering when the movable lattice is in its normal position, means for locking the movable lattice in normal position, and a foot-treadle arranged beneath the counter and adapted to trip and release the said locking means, as

and for the purpose set fo rth.

WILLIAM LAWRENCE.

Witnesses:

GEO. C. CANFIELD, Orro HORNICK.

tripping said position, and the lug C will 

